You’ll be asleep soon, one way or another. The light is on; you are lonely and sad. Turning off the light will not stop you from being lonely and sad, but it will help you sleep better, which will make the morning more possible. It will remind you that you did something small to care for yourself while you were lonely and sad, which means something in you exists outside the lonely sadness, can see it and sit with it and also see and sit with your future self, who will either sleep through the night or wake up from the light, and who might, maybe, be proud and thankful to wake up rested to the sun instead, if that’s something you can manage to make happen.

The Seven of Stones (or the Seven of Pentacles, in traditional Tarot decks) is a card of gardener wisdom. It tells us that growth can’t be forced out of its pace or its season–but we can tend with patient care to what we’re growing. The Seven says that the magic we need, the enduring kind, the kind that keeps us fed, always starts with what’s under our feet.